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Efficient Multi-word Compare and Swap
Rachid Guerraoui, Alex Kogan, Virendra J. Marathe +1
Atomic lock-free multi-word compare-and-swap (MCAS) is a powerful tool for designing concurrent algorithms. Yet, its widespread usage has been limited because lock-free implementat…
cs.OS2020★ 4 cited
Scalable Range Locks for Scalable Address Spaces and Beyond
Alex Kogan, Dave Dice, Shady Issa
Range locks are a synchronization construct designed to provide concurrent access to multiple threads (or processes) to disjoint parts of a shared resource. Originally conceived in…
cs.OS2020
Fissile Locks
Dave Dice, Alex Kogan
Classic test-and-test (TS) mutual exclusion locks are simple, and enjoy high performance and low latency of ownership transfer under light or no contention. However, they do not sc…